gles; but the image, or fenfible idea, we cannot diftinguifh by fancy from the image of a figure that has 900 angles. Watts. (2.) IMAGE, in a religious sense, (§ 1. def. 2.) is an artificial representation of fome perfon or thing, ufed as an object of adoration; in which fenfe, it is ufed fynonymously with IDOL. The ufe and adoration of images have been long controverted. It is plain, from the practice of the primitive church, recorded by the earlier fathers, that Chrif tians, during the first three centuries, and the greater part of the 4th, neither worshipped images nor ufed them in their worship. However, the greater part of the Popish divines maintain, that the ufe and worship of images are as ancient as the Chriftian religion itself: to prove this, they allege a decree, faid to have been made in a council held by the Apoftles at Antioch, commanding the faithful, that they may not err about the object of their worship, to make images of Chrift and worship them. Baron. ad ann. 102. But no notice is taken of this decree, till 700 years after the Apoftolic times, after the difpute about images had commenced. The firft inftance that occurs in any credible author, of images among Chriftians, is that recorded by Tertullian de Pudicit. c. 10. of certain cups, or chalices, as Bellarmine pretends, on which was reprefented the parable of the good fhepherd carrying the loft fheep on his fhoulders: but this inftance only proves, that the church at that time did not think emblematical figures unlawful ornaments of chalices. Another inftance is taken from Eufebius, (Hift. Eccl. lib. vii. cap. 18.) who fays, that in his time there were to be feen two brafs ftatues in the city of Paneas or Cæfarea Philippi; the one of a woman on her knees, with her arms ftretched out, the other of a man over against her, with his hand extended to receive her: these ftatues were faid to be the images of our Saviour and the woman whom he cured of an issue of blood. From the foot of the ftatue representing our Saviour, fays the hiftorian, fprung up an exotic plant, which, as foon as it grew to touch the border of his garment, was faid to cure all forts of diftempers. Eufebius, however, vouches none of these things; nay, he supposes that the woman who erected this flatue of our Saviour was a pagan, and afcribes it to a pagan cuftom. Philoftorgius, (Eccl. Hift. lib. vii. c. 3.) exprefsly fays, that this ftatue was carefully preferved by the Chriftians, but that they paid no kind of worship to it, because it is not lawful for Chriftians to worship brass or any other matter. The primitive Chriftians abftained from the worfhip of images, not, as the Papifts pretend, from tenderness to heathen idolaters, but because they thought it unlawful in itself to make any images of the Deity. Juftin Mart. Apol. ii. p. 44. Clem. Alex. Strom. 5. Strom. 1. and Protr. p. 46. Aug. de Civit. Dei. lib. vii. c. 5. and lib. iv. c. 32. Id. de Fide et Symb. c. 7. Lactant. lib ii. c. 3. Tertull. Apol. c. 12. Arnob. lib. vi. p. 202. Tertullian, Clemens Alexandrinus, and Origen, were of opinion, that, by the fecond commandment, paint ing and engraving were unlawful to a Chriftian, ftyling them evil and wicked arts. Tert, de Idol. cap. 3. Clem. Alex. Admon. ad Gent. p. 41. O rigen contra Celfum, lib. vi. p. 182. The ufe of images in churches as ornaments, was first intro duced by fome Chriftians in Spain, in the begin ning of the 4th century; but the practice was condemned as a dangerous innovation, in a council held at Eliberis in 305. Epiphanius, in a let ter preferved by Jerome, tom. ii. ep. 6. bears a ftrong teftimony againft images; and he may be confidered as one of the firft ICONOCLASTS. The cuftom of admitting pictures of faints and martyrs into churches (for this was the first fource of IMAGE-WORSHIP) was rare in the end of the 4th century; but became common in the 5th. But they were ftill confidered only as ornaments, and even in this view, they met with very confiderable oppofition. In the following century the cuf tom of thus adorning churches became almost univerfal, both in the E. and W. Petavius exprefsly fays, (de Incar. lib. xv. cap. 14.) that no ftatues were yet allowed in the churches; because they bore too near a refemblance to the idols of the Gentiles. Towards the clofe of the 4th, or beginning of the 5th century, images, which were introduced by way of ornament, and the used as an aid to devotion, began to be actually worshipped. However, it continued to be the doctrine of the church in the 6th, and in the beginning of the 7th century, that images were to be used only as helps to devotion, and not as objects of worfhip. The worship of them was condemned in the strongest terms by Gregory the Great; as appears by two of his letters, written in 601. From this time to the beginning of the 8th century, there occurs no inftance of any worship, given or allowed to be given to images by any council or affembly of bishops whatever. But they were commonly worshipped by the monks and populace in the beginning of the 8th century; infomuch, that in 726, when Leo published his famous edict, it had already spread into all the provinces fubject to the empire. The Lutherans condemn the Calvinifts for breaking the images in the churches of the Catholics, looking on it as a kind of facrilege; and yet they condemn the Romanists (who are profeffed image-worshippers) as idolaters: nor can thefe laft keep pace with the Greeks, who go far beyond them in this point; which has occafioned abundance of disputes among them. See ICONOCLAST, § 2. The Jews abfolutely condemn all images, and do not fo much as fuffer any ftatues or figures in their houses, much lefs in their fynagogues or places of worship. The Mahometans have an equal averfion to images; which led them to destroy moft of the beautiful monuments of antiquity, both sacred and profane, at Conftantinople. (3) IMAGE, in antiquity. The Roman patricians preferved the images of their ancestors with great care, and had them carried in proceffion at their funerals and triumphs: these were commonly made of wax, or wood, though fometimes of marble or brafs. They placed them in the veftibules of their houses; and they were to stay there, even if the houses happened to be fold, it being accounted impious to difplace them. Appius Claudius was the first who brought them into the temples, A. U. C. 259, and he added infcriptions to them, fhowing the origin of the perfons reprefented, and their brave and virtuous achievements. It What can thy imagery of forrow mean? It was not, however, allowed for all, who had the images of their ancestors in their houses, to have them carried at their funerals; this was only granted to fuch as had honourably discharged their offices: for those who failed in this refpect, for--All the vifionary beauties of the profpect, the feited that privilege; and if they had been guilty of any great crime, their images were broken in pieces. See IGNOBILES, and JUS, N° 7.. (4.) IMAGE, in optics, a figure in the form of any object, made by the rays of light iffuing from the feveral points of it, and meeting in fo many other points, either at the bottom of the eye, or on any other ground, or on any tranfparent medium, where there is no furface to reflect them. Thus we are faid to fee all objects by means of their images formed in the eye. (5.) IMAGE, in rhetoric, alfo fignifies a lively defcription of any thing in a difcourfe. Images in difcourfe are defined by Longinus, to be, in general, any thoughts proper to produce expreffions, and which present a kind of picture to the mind. But, in the more limited fenfe, he fays, images are fuch difcourfes as come from us, when, by a kind of enthusiasm, or an extraordinary emotion of the foul, we feem to fee the things whereof we speak, and present them before the eyes of thofe who hear us. Images, in rhetoric, have a very different ufe from what they have among the poets: the end principally propofed in poetry is, aftonifhment and furprife; whereas the thing chiefly aimed at in profe, is to paint things naturally, and to fhow them clearly. They have this, however, in common, that they both tend to move, each in its kind. These images, or pictures, are of vaft ufe, to give weight, magnificence, and strength, to a difcourfe. They warm and animate it; and, when managed with art, according to Longinus, feem, as it were, to fubdue the hearer, and put him in the power of the speaker. *To IMAGE. v. a. [from the noun.] To copy by the fancy; to imagine.-How are immaterial fubftances to be imaged, which are fuch things whereof we can have no notion? Dryden.Image to thy mind How our forefathers to the Stygian shades Philips. His ear oft frighted with the imag'd voice Of heav'n, when first it thunder'd. Prior. Fate fome future bard fhall join In fad fimilitude of griefs to mine, Pope. * IMAGERY. n. J. [from image.] 1. Senfible representations; pictures; ftatues. Of marble ftone was cut An altar carv'd with cunning imagery. Fairy Q. Dryden. paint and imagery that attracted our fenfes, fade and difappear. Rogers. 3. Forms of the fancy; falfe ideas; imaginary phantafms.-It might be a mere dream which he faw; the imagery of a melancholick fancy, fuch as mufing men miftake for a reality. Atterbury. 4. Reprefentations in writ ing; fuch defcriptions as force the image of the thing defcribed upon the mind.-I wish there may be in this poem any inftance of good imagery. Dryden. IMAGINABLE. adj. [imaginable. Fr. from imagine.] Poffible to be conceived.-It is not imaginable that men will be brought to obey what they cannot efteem. South.-Men, funk into the greatest darkness imaginable, retain some sense and awe of a Deity. Tillotson. *IMAGINANT. adj. [imaginant, Fr.] Imagining; forming ideas. We will enquire what the force of imagination is, either upon the body imaginant, or upon another body. Bacon. IMAGINARY. adj. [imaginaire, Fr. from imagine.] Fancied; vifionary; existing only in the imagination.Falfe forrow's eye, Which, for things true, weeps things imaginary. Shakep. Expectation whirls me round: Shakefp. Th' imaginary relish is fo fweet, That it enchants my fenfe. Fortune is nothing elfe but a power imaginary, to which the fucceffes of human actions and endeavours were for their variety afcribed. Raleigh. Why wilt thou add to all the griefs I fuffer, Imaginary ill and fancied tortures? Addison. (1.) * IMAGINATION, n. f. [imaginatio. Lat. imagination. Fr. from imagine.] 1. Fancy; the power of forming ideal pictures; the power of reprefenting things abfent to one's felf or others. -Imagination I understand to be the reprefentation of an individual thought. Imagination is of three Linds: joined with belief of that which is to come; joined with memory of that which is paft; and of things prefent, or as if they were prefent : for I comprehend in this imagination feigned and at pleasure, as if one should imagine such a man to be in the vestments of a pope, or to have wings. Bacon.-Our fimple apprehenfion of corporeal objects, if present, is fenfe; if abfent, imagination : when we would perceive a material object, our fancies prefent us with its idea. Glanville. O whither fhall I run, or which way fly The fight of this fo horrid fpectacle, Which erft my eyes beheld, and yet behold! For dire imagination till purfues me. Milton. Where beams of warm imagination play, The memory's foft figures melt away. Pope. 2. Conception; image in the mind; idea.-Sometimes defpair darkens all her imaginations: fometimes the active paffion of love cheers and clears her inventions. Sidney. Princes have but their title for their glories, An outward honour for an inward toil; And And, for unfelt imaginations, So fhould my thoughts be fever'd from my griefs; And woes, by wrong imaginations, lose The knowledge of themselves. Shak. King Lear. -His imaginations were often as juft as they were bold and strong. Dennis. 3. Contrivance; scheme. -Thou hait feen all their vengeance, and all their imaginations against me. Lam. iii. 60. 4. An unfoEid or fanciful opinion.-We are apt to think that fpace, in itself, is actually boundlefs; to which imagisation, the idea of space, of itself, leads us. Locke. (1.) IMAGINATON. See METAPHYSICS. (3.) IMAGINATION, FORCE OF. See MONSTER, N° 5. IMAGINATIVE. adj. [imaginatif. Fr. from imagine.] Fantastic; full of imagination.-Witches are imaginative, and believe oftentimes they do that which they do not. Bacon's Natural Hiftory. -Lay fetters and reftraints upon the imaginative and fantastic part, because our fancy is ufually pleafed with the entertainment of fhadows and gauds. Taylor's Rule of living boly. To IMAGINE. v. a. [imaginer, Fr. imaginor, Lat.] 1. To fancy; to paint in the mind.Look what notes and garments he doth give thee, Bring them, I pray thee, with imagin'd speed. Prefent fears Are less than horrible imaginings. Shak. Mach. --What are our ideas of eternity and immenfity, but the repeated additions of certain ideas of imagined parts of duration and expansion, with the infinity of number, in which we can come to no end of addition? Locke. 2. To scheme; to contrive. They intended evil against thee, they imagized a mischievous device. P/. xxi. 11. * IMAGINER. z. f. [from imagine.] One who forms ideas.-The juggler took upon him to know that fuch an one should point in fuch a place of a garter that was held up: and still he did it, by firft telling the imaginer, and after bidding the actor think. Bacon's Natural Hiftory. (1.) IMAGNA, a valley of Italy, in the ci-dedevant Venetian territory of the Bergamefco, con taining 19 parishes, and 13,000 citizens, in 1797; and according to the divifion then made, fituated in the dep. of the Adda and Oglio. But by the divifion on the 13th of May 1801, it appears to be now in the dep. of the Serio, of which Bergamo is the capital. (1.) IMAGNA, a fmall river in the above valley IMAGO, in entomology, a name given by Linnæus to the 3d ftate of infects, when they ap. pear in their proper shape and colours, and undergo no more transformation. (1.) IMAM, or IMAN, n. J. a minister in the Mahometan church, anfwering to a parish priest among us. The word properly fignifies what we call a prelate, one who prefides over others; but the Muffulmen frequently apply it to a perfon who has the care of a mofque, who is always there firft, and reads prayers to the people, which they repeat after him. (2.) IMAM is alfo applied, by way of excellence, to the 4 chiefs or founders of the 4 principal fects among the Mahometans. Thus Ali is the imam of the Perfian fect, or fect of the Schiates; Abubeker the imam of the Sunnites, which is the fect followed by the Turks; Saphii, or Safiy, the imamof another fect, &c. IMAMATE, n. f. the dignity of an IMAM. The Mahometans do not agree among themselves about this dignity. Some think it of divine right, and attached to a fingle family, as the pontificate of Aaron. Others hold, that though it is indeed of divine right, it is not attached so to any fingle family, as that it may not be transferred to another. They add, that the imam is to be clear of all grofs fins; and that otherwife he may be depofed, and his dignity may be conferred on another. However this be, it is certain, that after an imam has once been owned as fuch, he who denies that his authority comes immediately from God, is accounted impious; he who does not obey him is a rebel; and he who pretends to contradict what he fays is efteemed a fool, among the orthodox Muffulmans. The Imams have no outward mark of diftinction; their habit is the fame with that of the Turks in common, except that the turban is a little larger, and folded fomewhat differently. IMAUS, in ancient geography, the largeft mountain of Afia, and a part of Taurus; from which the whole of India extends into a vast plan, refembling Egypt. (Strabo, Pliny.) It extends through Scythia, as far as to the Mare Glaciale, dividing it into Scythia intra Imaum, and. Scythia extra Imaum, or Hither and Farther Scythia, (Ptolemy); and ftretching out along the N. of India to the eaftern ocean, separates it from Scythia. It had various names according to the different countries through which it extended, Poftellus thinks it is the SEPHAR of Scripture. * IMBECILE. adj. [imbecillis. Lat. imbecille, Fr.) Weak; feeble; wanting ftrength of either mind or body. *To IMBECILE. V.a. [from the adjective. This word is corruptly written embezzle.] To weaken a stock or fortune by clandeftine expenses or unjust appropriations.-Princes muft in a special manner be guardians of pupils and widows, not fuffering their perfons to be oppreffed, or their ftates imbeciled. Taylor's Rule of living boly. * IMBECILITY. n. J. Limbecilité. Fr.] Weaknefs, feebleness of mind or body.-A weak and imperfect rule argueth imbecility and imperfection. Hooker.-No imbecility of means can prejudice the truth of the promife of God herein. Hooker. -We that are ftrong muft bear the imbecility of the impotent, and not please ourselves. Hooker. That way we are contented to prove, which, being the worst in itself, is notwithstanding now, by reafon of common imbecility, the fitter and likelier to be brooked. Hooker. Strength would be lord of imbecility, Shak. Imbecility, for fex and age, was fuch as they could not lift up a hand against them. K. Charles. -When man was fallen, and had abandoned his primitive innocence, a ftrange imbecility immedi ately feized and laid hold of him. Woodward's Natural Hiflory. IMBERBIS COROLLA. See BOTANY, Glossary. * To IMBIBE. v. a. [imbibo, Lat, imbiber, Fr.] The dewy skirted clouds imbibe the fun. Thoms 2. To admit into the mind-Thofe that have imbibed this error, have extended the influence of this belief to the whole gospel, which they will not allow to contain any thing but promifes. Hammond. -It is not eafy for the mind to put off thofe confined notions and prejudices it has imbibed from cuftom. Locke.-Converfation with foreigners en larges our minds, and fets them free from many prejudices we are ready to imbibe concerning them. Watts. 3. To drench; to faturate to foak. This fenfe, though unufual, perhaps unexampled, is neceffary in English, unless the word imbibe be adopted, which our writers feem not willing to receive.-Metals, corroded with a little acid, turn into ruft, which is an earth taftelefs and indiffolv able in water; and this earth, imbibed with more acid, becomes a metallic falt." Newton. *IMBIBER. n. f. [from imbibe.] That which drinks or fucks-Salts are ftrong imbibers of fulphureous ftreams. Arbuthnot. IMBIBING. n. f. the action of a dry porous body, that abforbs or takes up a moift or fluid one: thus, fugar imbibes water; a fpunge, the moisture of the air, &c. * IMBIBITION. n. f. {imbibition, Fr. 'from imbibe.] The act of fucking or drinking in.-Moft powders grow more coherent by mixture of water than of oil: the reafon is the congruity of bodies, which maketh a perfecter imbibition and in corporation. Bacon.-Heat and cold have a virtual tranfition, without communication of fubftance, but in moisture not; and to all madefaction there is required an imbibition. Bacon.-A drop of oil, let fall upon a sheet of white paper, that part of it, which by the imbibition of the liquor, acquires a greater continuity and fome tranfparency, will appear much darker than the reft; many of the incident beams of light being now tranfmitted, that otherwife would be reflected. Boyle. * To IMBITTER. v. a. [from bitter.] 1. To make bitter. 2. To deprive of pleafure; to make unhappy. Let them extinguish their paffions which imbitter their lives, and deprive them of their fhare in the happinefs of the community. Addifon's Freeholder.Is there any thing that more imbitters the enjoyments of this life than fhame? South. 3. To exafperate. (1.) To IMBODY. v. a. [from body.] 1. To condenfe to a body. 2. To inveft with matter; Jo make corporeal.— Dryden. An opening cloud reveals An heavenly form imbody'd, and array'd· With robes of light. -Though affiduity in the moft fixed cogitation be no trouble to immaterialized fpirits, yet it is more than our imbodied fouls can bear without laffitude. Glanville. 3. To bring together into one mafs or company; to incorporate. I by vow am fo imbodied yours, That the which marries you must marry me. Shak. Never fince created man Met fuch imbodied force, as nam'd with thefe, Could merit more than that fmall infantry Warr'd on by cranes. Milton. Under their head imbody'd all in one. Milton. Then Claufus came, who led a num'rous band "Of troops imbodied, from the Sabine land. Dryden's Eneid. 4. To inclofe. Improper.-In thofe ftrata we fhall meet with the fame metal or 'mineral imbodied in ftone, or lodged in coal, that elsewhere we found in marle. Woodward.: (2.) * To IMBODY. v. 7. To unite into one mafs; to coalefce. The foul grow's clotted by contagion, Imbodies and imbrutes, 'till fhe quite lofe The divine property of her firft being. Milton. The idea of white, which fnow yielded yefterday, and another idea of white from another fuow to-day, put together in your mind, imbody and run into one. Locke. *To IMBOIL. v. n. [from boil. To exeftuate; to move with violent agitation like hot liquor in a caldron. Not now in ufe. With whofe reproach and odious menace, The knight imboiling in his haughty heart, Knit all his force, and 'gan foon unbrace, His grafping hold. Fairy Queen. *To IMBOLDEN. v. a. (from bold.] To raise to confidence; to encourage. 'Tis neceffary he should die: Nothing imboldens fin fo much as mercy. Shak, I think myfelf in better plight for a lender than you are, the which hath fomething imboldened me to this unfeafoned intrufion. Shak.-I was the more imboldened, because I found I had a foul congenial to his. Dryden. Nor flight was left, nor hopes to force his way; Imbolden'd by defpair, he ftood at bay. Dryd. Their virtues and fuperior genius imboldened them, in great exigencies of ftate, to attempt the fervice of their prince and country out of the common forms Swift. *To IMBOSOM. v. a. [from bofom.] 1. To hold on the bofom; to cover fondly with the folds of one's garment; to hide under any cover.The Father infinite, 2. 1 By whom in blifs imbofom'd fat the Son. Milt. Villages imbofom'd foft in trees, And fpiry towns by furging columns mark'd. To admit to the heart, or to affection.— Sidney. Who glad t'imbosom his affection vile, Did all the might, more plainly to appear. Fairy Queen. * To IMBÓUND. v. q. [from bound.] To inclofe: to shut in. That fweet breath, Which was imbounded in this beauteous clay." Shak. To IMBOW. v. a. [from bow.] To arch; to vault. Prince Arthur gave a box of diamonds fure, Imbowed with gold and gorgeous ornament. Fairy Queen. Imbowed J · -Inbowed windows be pretty retiring places for conference: they keep both the wind and fun off. Bacon. Let my due feet never fail To walk the ftudious cloister's pale, Milton. To IMBOWER. v. a. [from bower.] To cover with a bower; to fhelter with trees. And ftooping thence to Ham's imbowering walks, In fpotlefs peace retired.. Thomson. IMBOWMENT. n. f. [from imbow.] Arch; vault.-The roof all open, not fo much as any imbosument near any of the walls left. Bacon. • T. IMBRANGLE. v. a. To entangle. A low word. With fubtle cobweb cheats They're catch'd in knotted law like nets; In which, when once they are imbrangled, The more they ftir, the more they're tangled. Hudibras. * IMBRICATED. adj. [from imbrex, Latin.] Indented with concavities; bent and hollowed like a roof or gutter-tile. IMBRICATION. n. f. [imbrex, Lat.] Concave indenture.-All is guarded with a well made tegument, adorned with neat imbrications, and many other fineries. Derham. IMBRICATUS. See BOTANY, Gloffary. IMBROS, in ancient geography, an ifland of the gean Sea, near Thrace, 32 miles from Samothrace. It was for fome time governed by its own laws; but was afterwards fubjected fuccef. fively to Perfia, Athens, Macedonia, Pergamus, and Rome. It had a town and river of the fame name. It is now called Embro. To IMBROWN. v. a. [from brown.] To make brown; to darken; to obfcure; to cloud,, Where the morning fun firft warmly fmote The open field, and where the unpierc'd fhade Imbrosun'd the noontide bow'rs. Milton. The foot grows black that was with dirt imbrown'd, And in thy pocket gingling halfpence found. To IMBRUE, v. a. [from in and brue.] 1. To freep; to foak; to wet much or long. This feems indifferently written with im or em. I bave fuftained both modes of writing. Thou mad'ft many hearts to bleed There ftreams a spring of blood fo faft From thofe deep wounds, as all embru'd the face Of that accurfed catiff. Daniel's Civil War. --The mercilefs Turks, embrued with the Chrif tian blood, were weary of flaughter, and began greedily to feek after the fpoil. Knolles's Hift. Af me, as at a mark his bow he drew, Lucius pities the offenders," VOL. XII. PART I. That would embrue their hands in Cato's blood, Addifon. Lo! thefe hands in murder are imbru'd, Thofe trembling feet by juftice are purfu'd. Prior. There, where two ways in equal parts divide, The direful monfter from afar defcry'd Two bleeding babes depending at her fide; Whofe panting vitals, warm with life, fhe draws, And in their hearts embrues her cruel claws. Pope. His virgin fword Egyfthus' veins imbru'd; The murd❜rer fell, and blood aton'd for blood. Pope. -A good man chufes rather to pass by a verbal injury than imbrue his hands in blood. Clariffa. 2. To pour; to emit moisture. Obfolete. Some bathed kiffes, and did oft embrue The fugar'd liquor through his melting lips. Fairy Queen. (1.)* To IMBRUTE. v. a. [from brute.] To degrade to brutality. I, who erft contended With gods to fit the higheft, am now constrain'd Into a beaft; and mix with bestial flime, This effence to incarnate and imbrute. Milton. (2.) To IMBRUTE. v. n. To fink down to brutality. * The foul grows clotted by contagion, Imbodies and imbrutes, till the quite lofe The divine property of her firft being. Milton. *To IMBUE. v. a. [imbuo, Lat.] This word, which feems wanted in our language has been propofed by several writers, but not yet adopted by the reft. Imbu, French, the participial adj. is on ly used.] To tincture deep; to imbibe or foak with any liquor or dye.-I would render this treatife intelligible to every rational man, however little verfed in fcholaftick learning, among whom I expect it will have a fairer paffage, than among those that are deeply imbued with other principles. Digby Clothes which have once been thoroughly imbued with black, cannot well afterwards be dy ed into lighter colour, Bogle.-Where the mineral matter is great, fo as to take the eye, the body appears imbued and tinctured with the colour. Woodward. *T. IMBURSE. v. a. [bourse, French.] To ftock with money. This fhould be emburse, from emburfer, French. IMENSTADT, a town of Suabia, 20 miles E. of Lindau. Lon. 10. 20. E. Lat. 47. 35. N. IMERETIA, Į cr IMMERETTA, a principality IMERITIA, of Georgia, confifting of 4 provinces, between the Black Sea and the Cafpian; bounded on the S. by the Turkish dominions, W. by Mingrelia, N. by Offetia, and E. by the rest of Georgia. See GEORGIA, 2. It is, or was lately, governed by a prince named David. His father, the late czar Solomon, having forbidden the fcandalous traffic of the noblemen in their peafants, offended the Turks fo much, that he was driven from his throne, and compelled to live like a wild man, for 16 years, in the woods and caverns of the mountains, till the Ruffians reinftated him in his dominions. The capital, where the prince refides, is called Curtays. The remains of a church announce that it was formerly a large city; but at prefent it is hardly a village. Solomon, the father of David, ordered the citadel to be dedeftroyed, C |